God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels
God Dies by the Nile, Searching, The Circling Song
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God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels
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Nadia Albina
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Nawal El Saadawi
Three classic novels by renowned feminist writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi.
A peasant family is torn apart by a village mayor and his lackeys in God Dies by the Nile, Saadawi’s dark parable of poverty, female exploitation, injustice and religious hypocrisy in rural Egypt.
In Searching the disappearance of her lover causes Fouda to question everything.
Circling Song is a hypnotic meditation on gender, class and state violence told through the story of two mysterious twins.©1974 Nawal El Saadawi (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Critic reviews
Nawal El Saadawi is a legend in her own time. This is an ambitious work indeed
This novel is a powerful example of the kind of anger and desperation to which Arab women writers are beginning to give vent
Nawal El Saadawi’s technique is impressive: at once precise, controlled and hypnotic, even in translation. The style and meaning of the book are one. A song with no beginning and no end, the author tells its universal story
The most influential feminist thinker in the Arab world over the past half-century
Nawal El Saadawi writes with directness and passion
Powerfully political
One of Saadawi’s most powerful books that we have had the privilege to read in English. Unusual, original and unexpected, it’s one of those very rare books which address you in many languages and can take you in many different directions at once
The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab world
To read this book is like looking into a kaleidoscope; as each new element in the story is added, so a new configuration is formed
Nawal El Saadawi’s achievement is to lay bare the thin flesh and huge passions of her characters
A quietly formidable achievement; its understated evocation of tragedy and strength in the face of victimization make it a graceful classic
Searching is an intense exploration of the state of mind of a young Egyptian woman who longs for both professional and personal meaning in her life, but finds herself isolated and adrift in a Kafkaesque world of senseless work. Saadawi creates a hellish vision of Cairo. Her protagonist finds herself utterly alone in a world dominated by casual, brutal patriarchy and a shadowy authoritarian state. This is a disturbing text that makes the reader feel trapped in a world that often feels like a particularly bad recurrent dream
Nawal El Saadawi once again presents a psychological drama that will take you into the depths of a woman’s despair. Intimate details and vivid descriptions fill this story of an ordinary person who ends up teetering over the abyss of insanity… This is a novel of Cairo with the languid Nile winding its way through a story of love, guilt, betrayal and redemption
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